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Kenneth Hill Rowe (No Kum-Sok), the North Korean Pilot who defected from Kim Il Sung's North Korea soonafter the end of the Korean War with his state of the art MiG-15 jet, passed away in his Daytona Beach, Florida home at the age of 90. He has an interesting life story growing up in a very...

A video produced by The Front about Albert Pentilla, an American from Minnesota and veteran of the 1918 Karelian conflicts who led a group of American volunteers that fought in the Winter War, defending Finland from Soviet aggression back in 1939-40. And it briefly touches on the context of...

Learned about Captain... and later Colonel Lewis Millett who served in World War Two, the Korean War and Vietnam War. He joined the US Army at the age of 18 but deserted to join the Canadian Army when it looked like the US wouldn't enter World War Two... then after Pearl Harbor he returned and...

Marcelino de Mata, the most decorated man in the Portuguese Armed Forces, who happened to be Black and born in the then Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau. The "Black Knight of the Portuguese Empire" as he was called saved the lives of hundreds of soldiers and took part in over 2400 operations...

So last May some noble soul did an even longer writeup on Master Sergeant Jerry "Mad Dog" Shriver. https://www.themusastore.com/blogs/warrior-wednesday/warrior-wednesday-master-sergeant-jerry-mad-dog-shriver Has a lot of details, like the guns he used (the M-16 and variants weren't among...

Six Hours in Hell. This video is about Joseph Benavidez, a Green Beret who served in Vietnam (and earlier in the Korean War). If you have ten minutez, watch this video. It had me cursing under breath at how sheerly astounding the story was. There's also a beautiful comment pinned under the...

https://www.foxnews.com/world/real-james-bond-declassified-files-suggest-a-cold-war-spy-by-that-name No really he was a British spy who was named James Bond... though apparently he went by the name Jim. And his exploits occurred almost around the same time Dr. No, the first film of the James...

This meme reminded me of a special Christmas story... The Day a Beautiful BUFF Shot Down a Godless Communist MiG during Christmas. https://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62250

Here's an informational snippet I remember reading as a wee pup in James Dunnigan's book Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War. Nice nugget of information found amongst the plethora of fascinating trivia.

I feel obligated to bump up this thread with this Simple History video.

So I browsed the results I got when searching for the Siege of Turjak Castle in 1943 and having only skimmed the website articles, I spent an inordinate amount of time being utterly fascinated and wondering how a group of anti-communist Slovenes somehow ended up serving the Nationalists in Spain...